Microleague Baseball Manager's Challenge (PC, 3 1/2" Disk) Microleague Sports - 1991 USA, Canada Release

Microleague Baseball Manager's Challenge
Title	Microleague Baseball Manager's Challenge
Product ID	37523-11003
Product UPC	037523110039
Platform(s)	PC
Packaging	Retail Box
Media	3.5" Disk
Copyright date(s)	1991
Publisher(s)	Microleague Sports
Category(s)	Entertainment Sports Baseball

Description from the packaging.

For anyone, anywhere who's ever watched professional baseball and said; "If I were the manager I'd have…"

This is your chance. This is your game!

Exclusive MLSA stats and graphics.

We've given you players- 26 major league rosters- featuring real-life "boys of summer"- yesterday's legends… today's stars… tomorrow's greats.

We've given you sports-page quality stats… AB's, RBI's, HR's, BB's, SO's and more… stats you can update as the season progresses. You can even use our Stat Compiler to get reason totals, by player.

MLB is not a game for minor leaguers. It's not a "no brainer" arcade style game, requiring only a quick wrist and good hand-eye coordination. MLB-MC is thinking man's baseball. A game for fans, stat buffs, and all true lovers of America's national pastime. A game for you.

Play Ball!

Before the game, you select the home and visiting teams. Make line-up changes. Switch the batting order. Select the starting pitcher.

During the game, you control the team and the action. Tell a batter to bunt, hit away, or take a pitch. Check the coaches signal and have your baserunner steal or your batter hit and run. Pitch aggressively and call for a fastball, slider or pitchout. In key game situations, go to a full count. Or, pitch around the hitter and issue an intentional walk. Adjust your fielders against a dead pull hitter. Bring your infield in to guard against a run. Warm up a reliever. You make the substitutions. You call the plays. Choose either the normal or expert play mode (eliminates the pop-up "play" screens allowing you to call plays in numerical code, for faster play). You make the moves that make the difference.

After the game, print out a complete box score. The Stat Compiler lets you accumulate stats for your team. In future games, you can use these stats in scouting reports to help you win. You can even form your own teams for league play.

Special features.

Stadium factors. An MLB-MC exclusive! Exacting reproductions of three well-known major league stadiums- Royal's Stadium, Yankee Stadium and Dodger Stadium. Plus generic representations of each home team's park, with dimensions of the corners and power alleys displayed on the outfield walls.

Pop-up screens. Allows quick, easy mid-game access to complete pitcher and batter stats. Substitution screens to let you know in a flash who's available on your bench.

"Quick-Play" option. Gives you a line on score and box score in a "MicroLeague Minute." You pick the teams and set the line-ups, and the computer does the rest.

More players and player ratings in effect.

• Expanded, 30-player rosters (25 active and 5 reserves).
• Pitcher effectiveness vs. left and right-handed batters.
• Batting average vs. left and right-handed batters.
• Bunting ability for hit or sacrifice
• Stealing and base-running ratings plus pick-offs.
• Fatigue and power factors.
• Player tiring factors for season play.
• Fielder ratings plus throwing range and arm strength.
• And much more!

General Manager/Owner disk available.
Create your own "dream team" with players from any team or era. Trade, draft and release players. Change your rosters/stats as the season progresses (not included with game disk).

Support system & superb graphics.
Exclusive, full-color MicroLeague action 3-D, plus digitized sound and crowd noise. Hard disk support included.

System Requirements

PC MS-DOS 3.0
Required CPU	XT 8088/8086
Required RAM	512K
Supported Video	EGA VGA MCGA

Package Contents

• Box
• 44-Page manual
• Quick Reference Card
• Two Expert Mode Reference Cards
• Something to cheer about product insert
• Order Form
• MicroLeague Product Registration Card
• One 3 1/2" disk